Public Environmental Data Partners in the News.
[July 2025, KALW Radio] The fight to save climate and environmental data from erasure
[July 2025, Grist] Why the federal government is making climate data disappear
[July 2025, NextGov] Inside efforts to capture federal data after ‘the big takedown"‘
[June 2025, Inside Higher Ed] Preserving the Federal Data Trump is Trying to Purge
[May 2025, Bloomberg] Six Environmental Mapping Tools the White House Doesn’t Want You to See
[April 2025, BBC] Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion
[April 2025, The New York Times] The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It
[April 2025, NPR Here and Now] Trump officials removed web tools that interpret environmental data. Volunteers are racing to rebuild them
[April 2025, The Straits Times] Volunteers on ‘right side of history’ fight Trump data purge
[April 2025, NextGov Op-ed] America’s Digital Infrastructure Belongs to You
[March 2025, Click2 Houston] Executive order removing environmental justice tool creates challenges for homebuyers
[March 2025, New York Times] Government Science Data May Soon Be Hidden. They’re Racing to Copy It.
[March 2025, The New Yorker] The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
[March 2025, Forbes] The Data Heroes Racing To Save Environmental Data From The Trump Purge
[February 2025, MIT Technology Review] Inside the race to archive the US government’s websites
[February 2025, Salon] Trump is gutting environmental data, obscuring climate and pollution risks to the public: Deleting websites and ignoring scientific data threatens to undo clean air and water regulations
[February 2025, National Security Archive] Disappearing Data: Trump Administration Removing Climate Information from Government Websites
[February 2025, Inside Climate News] ‘Canary in a Coal Mine’: Data Scientists Restore a Climate Justice Tool Taken Down by Trump
[February 2025, Context] As Trump hits delete, the race is on to save LGBTQ+, climate data
[February 2025, IEEE Spectrium] Saving Public Data Takes More Than Simple Snapshots
[January 2025, Inside Higher Ed] As Data Goes Off-Line Under Trump, Researchers Are Uploading Backups
[January 2025, 404 Media] Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov
[January 2025, The Verge] Donald Trump’s data purge has begun
[January 2025, E&E News] Groups archive environmental justice data scrapped by Trump
[January 2025, Journalist’s Resource] Researchers rush to preserve federal health databases before they disappear from government websites